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Chris Masse,
1. go into midasoracle.org/wp-content/themes/aquafluid/img/ and rename the header.jpg to header_old.jpg
2.Create an Image and call it header.jpg
3. upload it to the ‘midasoracle.org/wp-content/themes/aquafluid/img/’ folder.
4. open up style.css and look for #header style
5. look for ‘repeat-x’ and replace it with ‘no-repeat’ and save the file.

I am experimenting (i.e., complete newbie) with WordPress and am using AquaFluid (nice, clean theme). I would like to try having only the first 4-5 lines of posts displayed but I do not see a setting in either WP or AF to do so. Is there a way to do so? Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction?

there may be
1.page-archives.php and
2.page-links.php and
3.contact.php

these are “page templates” that come with the theme.

“1” is the Archives Page Template.
Create a New Page using the write page option within the wordpress admin.
and on the right hand side you see a box called ‘page template’
choose ‘archives’ as the page template.
then when someone views this page, page-archives.php will be loaded.

“2” is the Favorite Links Page Template.
Create a New Page using the write page option within the wordpress admin.
and on the right hand side you see a box called ‘page template’
choose ‘Links’ as the page template.
then when someone views this page, page-links.php will be loaded.

“3” is the Contact Page Template.
Create a New Page using the write page option within the wordpress admin.
and on the right hand side you see a box called ‘page template’
choose ‘Contact’ as the page template.
then when someone views this page, contact.php will be loaded. This gives an easy option to create a contact page without installing any plugin.
People can email you using this page.
the email will be sent to the email address entered within wordpress options as the ‘admin email’.

When using a screenresolution greater than 1024×768, I get a strange line going fra top to bottom on the right side of the sidebar. I see the same problem on your “Live preview” page. How can I fix this?

Sadish, I’m trying out your aquafluid theme now…one request when you next make an update. Can you add the About and Subscribe sidebar info on as options when someone is using widgets? Those go away for me when I use all my widgets. Actually the RSS links come up under the Meta tab…maybe this is because I switched from the other theme? I like how you have them separately in the subscribe tab better.

Also, my verse of the day widget at the top of the sidebar ocassionally does not wrap the text properly (it gets cut-off). It only seems to happen on the home page. Will it hurt anything if I make the sidebar a little wider?

Also, I have the same problem as Michael and tried what you suggested but it didn’t work. Is this the code you were referring to?
li.sidebox {
padding:10px;
background: url(img/sideheadtop.gif) #ededed no-repeat left top;
margin-bottom: 10px;

LOVE it!! Thanks for this beautiful and simple theme. I’ve already modified it a bit with image rotation in the header and some other bits in the sidebar… that only took me a few minutes. A great, slick, clean, elegant look!

I found an other little problem. If you give a link to a non existing posting – there is a message that the posting isn’t found – and this is ok.

But there is also an Database error message – and this must be a problem:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 1′ at line 1]
SELECT ID,post_title FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date > ” AND post_date

Sadish, I am pretty much an amateur, just starting out with my blog. Have installed all the files in my server. Initially everything was fine, but suddenly the sidebar moved to the bottom, below my first posting. I just cannot understand what is the problem. Could you help please ?

I just installed Word Press today and after many hours of searching, found your Aquafluid theme – it is fantastic and just what I was looking for.

One thing that puzzles me, on my main page which displays correctly using the default theme, when I switch to yours, the post text is no longer formatted the same, i.e. the the whole text of the post wraps leaving a jumbled mess.
I looked at the source in edit mode and paragraph tags etc are there but they are not displayed that way on the page.

I am using your template – I made some small changes and translated the text into German.

One problem: A author of a plugin told me that the template is still using some very old functions of WordPress version 1.5 – and the plugin didn’t work with the upgraded WordPress 2.1. The problem occured with the “page.php” file.

I like the theme. but one problem occurs. I want posts to be appear as summary in home page and categories. Despite making settings as summary in the read option tab the site does show the full text.
Any body can help me out.